Skepticism of government is as American as apple pie. The experiment that is the United States was born out of a colonial revolution against an overbearing master. As the decades have passed, however, the federal government has steadily acquired powers that are vastly beyond what was intended by our founding Constitution. And like a frog in a pot of water that is slowly brought to a boil, Americans have become acclimated to a world in which the federal government intrudes into every nook and cranny of our lives. READ THE REST...